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05-23-2002, 09:43 PM
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Hello All:
I am getting tired with my music collection. I am looking at recommendations for some fresh music that I can listen to. I am interested in punk/rock, rap, and generally all politically-oriented music. I know SYM is made up of diverse people with diverse musical tastes, so I thought it would be a good idea to ask people here for ideas. Thanks.  
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05-23-2002, 09:48 PM
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Well you couldn't go past Pennywise for political punk, but you may already have that (I'm taking a stab in the dark here at what you have), or the Swedish band 'The Hives', fairly new and very cool- think Milencollin with a message.
I'll have a think on this...
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05-23-2002, 09:50 PM
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| | | Could you give us a selection of the music you are tired off? (I believe this might speed up the process)
Looking for 80's , 90's?
70's?
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05-23-2002, 11:49 PM
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1670s?
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05-24-2002, 12:23 AM
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1670s? | ... I thought that fable was spamming a (seemingly) serious(?) thread... 
...but then again it dawned on me that fable MUST be really serious in recommending classical(?) music.  
At any rate, @flyboy try instrumental music from different countries...
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New Wave Music of the 80's 
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05-24-2002, 12:29 AM
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There's actually some damn good "politically-oriented" folk stuff that Scottish bards wrote during the Jacobite Rebellions. If you can find 'em these days (and I don't know that you can), look for an album by Ewan MacColl, the great Scottish balladeer and political activist (who was banned from visiting the US for several decades about 30 years ago). Some of the stuff is incredibly affecting--"This is Not Ma Ayn Hus," for example, is a wonderfully bitter ballad, while "Come Ye Ore Fra' France?" is an extremely funny and obscene satire directed at George I and his mistresses. Great stuff.
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05-24-2002, 04:44 AM
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I have know begun to regularly raid my parents music collection. On the basis that not only do they have reasonable music taste but that its also cheaper in the long run, a lot cheaper
Dad has a huge collection of symphony pieces and I'm slowly making my way through it.
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I don't want to pull the thread of Humanflyz' tastes (he started this discussion, after all), but there's a great deal of excellent classical music out there--easily 600 years' worth, or more, derived from dozens of different unique traditions, structures, and goals (not to mention thousands of composers). Well worth exploring.
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| | | ...or consider traditional folk music from various corners of the world. i reccomend elizabethan folk music, gamalan music or some latin american stuff if you want something quite alternative to the mainstream. or pick up some jazz. i'm currently listening to a selection of my dad's music collection, and heartily recommend charles mingus to you.
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05-24-2002, 04:26 PM
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Oh, gamelan music! Yes, investigate that. There's some wonderful head-clearing music from Bali, Java, and the Sundanese people well worth hearing. Look for the Seven Seas label, if you can find it--great stuff.
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05-24-2002, 04:44 PM
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Would Rage Against the Machine be considered political oriented?
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05-24-2002, 04:58 PM
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| | indeed they would, and they aren't bad at making music, either
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05-24-2002, 06:18 PM
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Would Rage Against the Machine be considered political oriented? | But they aren't anything anymore.  . I hope Zack comes back.
The Hives are pretty good. I like the White Stripes and Strokes. Well a few songs of these bands.
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Yeah, it's too bad Zack left( .....personally I'm more into System of a Down, P.O.D., Papa Roach type music, but RAtM was hella good ......I can't really think of any punk-like politically oriented bands humanflyz...sorry
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05-24-2002, 08:42 PM
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I already have Rage Against The Machine, and I love their music. About classical music, I am not really that big of a fan, but don't have anything against it either. I also prefer music with words, not just instrumental. I haven't really heard anything before the 80's, so I guess I could check out some older music. Here's some of the things I already have:
1)NoFX
2)Rage Against The Machine
3)Lagwagon
4)Bad Religion
5)Ten Foot Pole
6)Green Day
7)Barenaked Ladies
8)Dido
9)System Of A Down
10)Nirvana
11)Coldplay
12)Saves The Day
13)Tool
14)Radiohead
15)Eminem
16)Dr. Dre
17)2Pac
18)Metallica
19)Chemical Brothers
As you can see, these music are fairly recent, but I see no really outstanding music in the present that are in the same genre that I prefer. @Fable: Ewan MacColl sounds very intriguing. I'll look him up on the net.
BTW, this discussion is very helpful to me, so thanks for the suggestions and please keep them coming.  
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